Orson Scott Card Quotes
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Everything I do now is a first.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
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I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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If I can't write it would be as if I died.
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He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
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If you are the person who gets the lion's share of attention in good times, guess what: you get the lion's share of attention in bad times.
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She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
